Saturday, November 17, 2018

Pokemon Detective Pikachu and 8 other trailers to watch this week

Check out nine trailers from this week below.

DETECTIVE PIKACHU

I don’t have the slightest idea how, of all of the possible live-action Pokémon movies that could be made, one about Pikachu being a detective and a smarmy dope of a friend was what got greenlit. But maybe that added level of absurdity is the right way to go. This movie looks strange and tonally and visually bizarre, and perhaps that’s the key to getting people to stop thinking so much and just enjoy it. It comes out on May 10th.

TOY STORY 4

Pixar put out a very teaser-y first teaser for Toy Story 4 this week, giving the world a quick look at the film’s driving force — a plastic fork named Forky. The teaser actually gives a really good clue about what the film will be about, but ultimately, I care way less about this teaser than the other video Pixar put out for Toy Story 4: a “trailer reaction” video that’s basically just an animated version of Key & Peele doing their valet bit. The film comes out on June 21st.

DUMBO

Disney’s live-action remakes continue with Tim Burton’s take on Dumbo. Even though it’s a Disney classic, Burton’s twisted sense of style still shines through here, making the whole world feel at once dreary, magical, and like something is very wrong. It comes out on March 29th.

EVERYBODY KNOWS

Everybody Knows is the latest film from Asghar Farhadi, the director of A Separation andThe Salesman. It looks like another small but intensely dramatic film, this time about a girl being abducted. Unfortunately, this trailer doesn’t give a great sense of what to expect, probably because it’s trying to hide the fact that the film is in Spanish. It comes to the US on February 8th.

MRS. WILSON

This is kind of wild. Ruth Wilson plays her real-life grandmother in this adaptation of her grandmother’s memoir, which quickly takes a very surprising turn. The history behind this makes it fascinating enough, but the story itself should be compelling, too, since it seems to leap into the territory of a spy novel. It comes out sometime next year.

GLORIA BELL

I am 100 percent here for a film romance between Julianne Moore and John Turturro, even if, inevitably, it all has to go bad by the end. What’s really interesting here: Gloria Bell is actually a remake of a movie called Gloria that this same director made five years ago in Spanish. The film — and Moore’s performance — have been getting high praise, so this’ll be something to look for when it comes out on March 8th.

ROMA

Here’s the full trailer for Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s first film since Gravity. It’s quiet, it’s black-and-white, and Netflix evidently thinks it’s going to be a very big deal: the film is getting screened in theaters for a couple of weeks before it starts streaming — something the service doesn’t usually do. The film will come to a small number of theaters starting on November 21st, then it will go online on December 14th.

FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY

Stephen Merchant directs this very odd comedy about a pair of siblings trying to break into the wrestling world. Naturally, The Rock makes an appearance or two. It comes out on February 22nd.

BUFFALO BOYS

Buffalo Boys is Singapore’s submission for next year’s foreign language Oscar — something that you might be surprised to hear after watching this entirely English language trailer. But the film is in both English and Bahasa,acc toVariety, and it’s directed by Indonesian film producer on Mike Wiluan. It comes to the US on January 11th